When
Elizabeth started playing the Egypt Game, she became the queen, Neferbeth.
When Elizabeth had first moved into the neighborhood, the original Egypt girls, and
April especially, had not wanted to ask her to join in their game. Once they got to know her,
however, April and Melanie both agreed that Elizabeth would be a perfect fit, especially since
her profile resembled that of the famous Egyptian queen, Nefertiti. April had gotten a bust of
the ancient queen at the Professor's antique store, and that single item had been the original
inspiration for the Egypt Game. The girls had set up a shrine with the bust as its focus, and
their subsequent role-playing developed from that.
Elizabeth, who is a tiny
Asian girl, resembled, when looked at from the side, the bust of Nefertiti in April and
Melanie's minds. Her curly ponytail, tightly bound,
"pulled her hair back away from her face and neck; and there was certainly
something about her delicate, slender-necked profile that was very like the statue of
Nefertiti."
Using a creative combination of her own
name, Elizabeth, and the queen's, Nefertiti, the girls called Elizabeth "Neferbeth" in
the game. With April and Melanie playing the role of priestesses, and Marshal playing the king,
Elizabeth was the perfect addition as the queen modeled after the famed
Nefertiti.
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